In Plena Vita - The Full Life: The Collected Poems

There is discipline, spirit, no easy optimism, sensibility, heart in these poems. Gary Snyder To read Adversaria is to be in the presence of a lively and supple and various mind, as tough as it is American. Li Young Lee Russell, who works at Weirton Steel, knows how to pare language and image down to a crystal moment....The strength and straight-forwardness of these poems makes them some of the best statements on life not only in a steel mill but the small towns that surround it. Marianna Hofer